turbines

The objective is that 50% of all electricity must come from wind turbines by 2020.

Many turbines spend time with their blades locked because the wind is too strong - they would turn too fast for their gearbox to handle.

Sea water is heated with the natural gas, and turned into steam which runs turbines to generate electricity.

It makes no sense to run the pumps for storage when you could throttle back the gas turbines instead.

Or run air fans with your nuclear steam turbine to blow air across your wind turbines.

And during peak hours, you need to turn on many gas turbines to get additional power.

The problem it is trying to solve: wind turbines have a significantly variable range of speeds/energies.

He's recently announced a commission into wind turbines and is on the record as saying coal is 'good for humanity'.

On the other hand, regulations as to where you can put wind turbines, etc.

From what the article claims, rediscovering their principles would produce a car with much better noise characteristics than turbines and modern ICEs.

Well there is combined cycle[1] which does this with steam and gas turbines.

I would _not_ want to be flying on a plane with one of those hitting the turbines.

) """For example, some wind turbines are guaranteed a fixed price for the electricity they generate.

Throwing your hands up at the first hint of potential problems is basically a variant on the FUD we know so well in computing, as is claiming wind turbines are "hideous" for the environment.

(And in some cases, at least, for good reason.) And unmetered (and as such, unknown, which is "interesting") power used for things like rotating the wind turbines, feathering them, and keeping them turning when there isn't wind.